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2011 Stories by Amanda McCorquodale

• Arsht Center 2011-2012 Season: Idina Menzel and Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries

  published Aug 30, 2011

  Just to be clear, the best theater news we could get would be if The Book of Mormon swooped into the Arsht Center in the next couples of months. But no, the new musical from the creators of South Park... More >>

• Life Cycle

  published August 18, 2011

  Remember when life was measured in 2MB floppy disks? That all feels so ridiculous now —using something ten times bigger than a flash drive to... More >>

• ABC Family Enlists Glee Producer to Develop Musical Comedy Maid in Miami

  published Aug 29, 2011

  According to Deadline, singer-actress Christina Milian is in negotiations to star in a new ABC Family sitcom set in South Florida. Titled Maid in Miami, the new show is in development by Rita Rocks cr... More >>

• Wynwood Walls Expands with Seven New International Street Artists

  published Aug 26, 2011

  Despite what you read on Yelp, Wynwood Walls is not any painted wall west of North Miami Avenue and south of 34th Street. It's a specific urban art park sandwiched between Joey's and Wynwood Kitchen o... More >>

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  Eleven Best Things to Do This Weekend

  published Aug 26, 2011

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough never finished his biography of Pablo Picasso. Whyr He said the artist turned out to be boring. And if the guy who invented Cubism and was BFFs with ... More >>

• Yesterday's Tomorrow

  published August 4, 2011

  Four years from now, we will have reached the year Back to the Future II was set. The sequel follows Marty McFly into the year 2015, when... More >>

• Chuck Palahniuk, Nicole Krauss, and 22 Other Authors Confirmed for Miami Book Fair 2011

  published Aug 24, 2011

  After a few meager tweets about some of the authors confirmed for the Miami Book Fair 2011, a recent email has just released two dozen more awesome names. Check after the jump for the 24 new authors c... More >>

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  Artist Nick Gentry Finds the Human Remains of Dead Technology

  published Aug 23, 2011

  Remember when life was measured in 2MB floppy disksr That all feels so ridiculous now --using something ten times bigger than a flash drive to transfer a thousand times less information. But there's a... More >>

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  Magic City, New Series About '60s Miami Beach, Holds Casting Call for Vintage Beauties

  published Aug 22, 2011

  Just four years after Mad Men originally aired on AMC in 2007, the '50/'60s fetishism has finally peaked. This fall's new lineup includes Mid Century-based series like Pan Am and the Playboy Club, and... More >>

• Is That Che Guevara and a Topless Frida Kahlor

  published Aug 17, 2011

  There's plenty going on over at NW 25th Street in Wynwood. This sprawling mural involves a possible Che, a topless Frida Kahlo, gorillas, Donnie Darko-style bunny heads, and Tim Burton-esque ghouls. r... More >>

• Happy Birthday, Charles Bukowski! Pay Tribute to the Man Behind the Myth

  published Aug 16, 2011

  If he hadn't died of leukemia in 1994, Charles Bukowski would have been 91 years old today. And with the rumors that James Franco is adapting the author's semiautobiographical novel Ham on Rye for the... More >>

• Why Local Flash Mobs Make Us Feel Crappy About Miami

  published Aug 15, 2011

  Is the below video a dancetastic flash mob or an ad for the Ikea in Sunriser That store is crowded enough without the added publicity. (If someone doesn't already know where to buy disposable Swedish ... More >>

• Michael Ondaatje, Tea Obreht, and 8 More Authors Scheduled for 2011 Miami Book Fair

  published Aug 12, 2011

  The Miami Book Fair continues its Chinese water torture-style of author announcements with ten more names released via their Twitter feed. As we reported last week, the first authors released included... More >>

• Tour and Document Miami's Street Art with All City App Before Some Jerk Paints Over It

  published Aug 12, 2011

  There's a new Bansky phone app, which provides an interactive map and profile of nearby Banksy street art. And while we don't (officially) have any Banksy's in Miami, if there was ever a town in need ... More >>

• Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

  published Aug 12, 2011

  This past week, a 71-year-old man was arrested for spray-painting "SLA" (Sane, Liberated Americas) on hundreds of light posts. Why'd he do itr The Lord told him he was the 24th Elder of the SLA politi... More >>

• MOCA Announces Finalists for Optic Nerve Festival XIII

  published Aug 10, 2011

  We're not shy about our love of MOCA's annual showcase of video art, the Optic Nerve Festival. Heck we even voted it our Best Film Festival in Miami this year. From Coral Morphologic's glowing sea cre... More >>

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  Ten Best Things to Do This Weekend

  published Aug 05, 2011

  In Sam Lipsyte's third novel The Ask, a dark look at white-collar loserdom, a character explains his bad behavior with "...because my name is Florida. When I do something shitty, something swampy and ... More >>

• Miami International Book Fair Announces Authors For 2011 Literary Festival

  published Aug 03, 2011

  The Miami International Book Fair, which will be held November 13 to 20th this year, just announced four authors billed for their 2011 literary freak-out. The news trickled out via their Twitter feed ... More >>

• West Coast Represents in Wynwood (Photos)

  published Aug 03, 2011

  Yes, we know this mural on NW Second Avenue and 24th Street has been there since Art Basel 2010. But there's not a lot of new street art going on right now lest the cans explode in this heat. Plus whe... More >>

• Anchorman, Stormtroopers, and Other Awesome Kicks Spotted at Sneaker Con (Photos)

  published Aug 01, 2011

  Just because a ball player decided to bring his talents to South Beach, Miami was elevated to one of the sneaker capitols of the world. Sneaker Con, which has been held in NYC and D.C., hosted its fir... More >>

• Miami Shores Britto Sculpture Vandalized Again

  published Aug 01, 2011

  A Romero Britto beach ball sculpture outside the Miami Shores Country Club was vandalized for a second time on Saturday. In June, an anonymous tagger spray-painted the words "Not Art" on the polka-dot... More >>

• Miami Art Museum Starts Vertical Construction at Museum Park

  published Jul 29, 2011

  Miami might actually get an art museum worthy of its visual art scene after all.  Despite recession hiccups and a tainted history of Miami development projects, the new Miami Art Museum at Museum... More >>

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  Nine Best Things to Do This Weekend

  published Jul 29, 2011

  We admit that sometimes we look at the calendars in other cities and pine away at their mermaid parades and secretary-themed club events. We're only human. But considering Miami feels like a sweaty so... More >>

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  Cirque Eloize's iD Will Make You Gasp and Jump, Jump

  published Jul 27, 2011

  The essential measure of a good cirque production is how many times the audience gasps. And last night, at the first performance of Cirque Eloize's iD at the Arsht Center, there were four such audible... More >>

• Win Two Free Tickets to Cirque Eloize iD

  published Jul 26, 2011

  There are many ways to battle: via clamors and guns, via rap a la 8 Mile, and in a spirited dance-off. In the world of Montreal performance troupe Cirque Eloize, rival gangs choose to battle via a cir... More >>